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BAKE PAN.

Patented Sept. 5, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo SETH J. WILLIAMS AND HIRAM RIGHEY, OF SING SING, NEW YORK; SAID WILLIAMS ASSIGNOR 'IO SAID RIOHEY; SAID RIGHEY ASSIGNOR OF TWO -THIRDS TO SOPHIA WILLIAMS AND E.

' SAME PLACE.

MERRITH COLLYER, OF

BAKE-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,013, dated September 5, 1882.

' Application filed March 3,1882. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SETH J. WILLIAMS and HIRAM RICHEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Sing Sing, in the county of Westchester. and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bake-Pans,ofwhich the followingisa specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our bake-pan. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

This invention has relation to baking-pans; and it consists in the construction and novel 1 arrangement of a cover for bake-pans, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to bake bread and cake; but fish, flesh, or fowl may also be cooked in the pan in a scientific manner.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the body of the pan, provided a short distance below its edge with an encirclingstop-bead, B, upon which the edge of the cover 0 rests when in place, and by means of the lap-joint formed at this point prevents the escape of heat and steam between the body and cover.

At the ends of the coverG are provided lato era] air-chambers D D, opening one at each side of the cover, and each provided with a regulating-valve, E, for opening and closingit at pleasure. The lateral air-chambers D D communicate with the interior'of the cover 0 3 5 and with theinterior of the pan, when the cover is in place thereon, through openings F F in the end walls of the cover 0, made therein preferably near the closed ends of the lateral airchambers D D.

The cover 0 is also provided through some portion of its top, preferably near the center rent to be passed over the surface of the article being baked in the pan, to assist in the production of the proper crust or browned surface thereon, and the valves E are provided to regulate the degree of this draft or current or to out it 011 entirely, if necessary.

The pan-body is provided with ring or other handles I, one at each end, and the cover 0 has a similar handle located centrally, as shown.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a baking-pan, the cover 0, provided with thelateral air-chambers D D at its ends, communicating therewith through the openings F F, and provided with the valves E for regulating the draft or current to the pan, substantially as specified.

2. In a baking-pan, the combination, with the body A, having the stopbead B below its edge, of the cover 0, resting by its edge upon the stop-bead B, and having the lateral airchambers D D, with openings F F and valves E, and the test-hole G and valve H, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

SETH J. WILLIAMS. HIRAM RlUHEY.

Witnesses ABM. J. UNDERHILL, PIERCE REYNOLDS. 

